Word: jeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task for the Left, then, is not to jeer Falwell, or even, primarily, to combat his lobbyists on Capitol Hill. It is instead to build support among the millions who are searching for an alternative to the dizzying national crisis that has brought school closings, gang rapes, and factory shutdowns to their home towns. Many have already found their answer in Falwell and his friends. But many others sense that his answers are too simple--that socially irresponsible corporations and corrupt politicians, not gays and pointy-headed liberals, are to blame. They need articulate leadership. And that doesn't mean...
...distractions in U.S. halls have increased lately. Disruptive little creatures have been loose-not at political meetings, where hecklers may have more legitimate business, but in university auditoriums. Two months ago in Berkeley, the cradle of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a group of them managed to jeer U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick from the stage, temporarily. She canceled her lecture scheduled for the next day. The student senate, in a masterpiece of smug non sequitur, sent a letter of regret that observed, "We cannot help but find it somewhat inconsistent that you feel such great concern for your...
...late afternoon, straggling into a place called Sansare, the tired, dust-covered troupe, its ribbons drooping, passes by a local official's house where armed police keep watch. The guards begin to jeer and shout at the passersby: "Why don't you go back into the mountains with the Communists, you traitors...
Oversized racket sales -- with prices ranging from $100-300 -- grew by 60 per cent last year. The racquets have put the snowshoe on the other foot, prompting Prince users to jeer outdated traditionalist and mock the mini-racquet antiques. What's that for. . . Stir your martinis? Swat mosquitos? Nail down the lines...
...Black Lagoon, in 3-D. It has the quintessential horror plot: The good guys are in a space-ship in outer space when they discover that a monster is on board. No place to run. You can approach this film three ways. You can be a pseudo and jeer out loud at the cheap effects, you can be a silly pseudo and consider the movie to be an allegory for the human condition, or you can make believe that you are an eight-year-old and be really scared. The third alternative is the most...